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A43718	Plus ultra, or, Englands reformation, needing to be reformed being an examination of Doctor Heylins History of the reformation of the Church of England, wherein by laying together all that is there said ... / written by way of letter to Dr. Heylin by H.N. ...	Hickman, Henry, d. 1692.	1661 (1661)	Wing H1913; ESTC R19961	41,680	57

Cloyster lined with manifold favours your zeal for the Church cannot want its recompence but sir it is good to remember your latter end you know not but that your conscience may be then awakened and read over this history you have written and pinch you for the Errata's of your zeal and charity against your poor Brethren we are confident that much of that you have laid into the foundation of the Reformation of the Church of England though you and others judge it gold silver pretious stones will be found wood hay and stubble when he appeareth who is like a refiners fire There is one very naughty passage in your book pag. 38. part 1. utterly unbecoming the mouth of a Christian much less a Doctor of Divinity where you are not ashamed to say That because in the twenty fourth Injunction in King Edwards time that upon Holy and Festival dayes it shall be lawful for men to labour in harvest you extend this liberty as well to the Lords day as the Annual Festivals and then you quote an Act of Parliament to authorize this liberty and say that by that Act any man either in harvest or or at any other times in the year when necessity shall so require who will not pretend necessity may labour ride fish or work any kind of work at their pleasure upon the Lords day And you tell us what was done at Court on that day Sir we are confident that the intention of that Act did not reach to allow so gross a prophanation of the Lords day and you that are so versed in Acts of Parliament for they are the only sphere wherein Liturgy and Ceremonies move cannot you find an Act of Parliament restraining this abuse If you cannot which we know you may it had been the duty of a Protestant Reformed Doctor of Divinity to have discovered the evil of such abuses and to have laboured with all your might that such an Act may pass Oh Sir must Jesus Christ our Lord have no preheminence above our Lady and must Iohn Baptist be lifted up to an equality with him whose shoe-latchet he confessed he was not worthy to unloose What! have Peter and Paul and Philip and Iacob done as much for us as Jesus Christ and where is the least hint that one hour is to be set apart to their honour Must every paltry holy-day be set in equality of reputation with the Lords day which Christ sanctified by his resurrection the accomplishment of a far greater work then that of Creation and his Apostles instituted by their constant solemn Assemblies upon it You say in page 38. part 1. in the latter times the Lords day began to be advanced into the reputation of the Jewish Sabbath If by latter times you mean the Apostles times it is true for then it began and when ever it began why should not Christians be as zealous to advance the Lords day unto the highest pitch of reputation that ever the Jewish Sabbath was in abateing the Ceremonious rigor have not Christians greater obligations greater encouragements to glorifie God and lift up his name which is Holy Holy Holy Oh Mr. Doctor the time past may suffice you for this folly You need not have now told us that men may do any thing at their pleasure if they say they have necessity on the Lords day and seek to establish this mischief by a Law We would be loth to be in your coat in the day of the Lord for your debasing the Lords day for the best preferment the Church of England can give us We say to you as Bishop Iewel said to Harding Arripe severitatem Christianam palinodiam cane Well Sir to go on with our reckoning you have seen one Non-conformist and Ridley's recantation for his Prelatical rigor which amounts to another and so he is to be taken off the file and you have two less then you had We shall pass on with more speed in the numbring up the rest You tell us page 93. part 1. of one Trins a Deacon who refused to wear the vestments appointed to be worn Of one Mr. Iohn Rogers Prebend of Saint Pauls and Divinity Reader of that Church who could never be perswaded to wear them The like aversness as you call it you ascribe unto Mr. Iohn Philpot Archdeacon of Winchester who suffered in Queen Maries time So that here you have Hooper Ridley when in his cold blood Trins Rogers and Philpot all disgusting these Ceremonies Many more there were but these you have left upon record with your own pen. To proceed to the times of Queen Elisabeth you have heard Iewels testimony in part who was the glory of her Reign for learning and you will see it more fully by and by You tell us page 120. part 2. that one Whitehead who had been Chaplain to Anne Bollen the Queens mother was offered the Archbishoprick of Canterbury but you say he refused it because he was more inclined to the Presbyterians then the Episcopal form of Government And page 123. part 2. you say Coverdall waved the acceptation of the Bishoprick of Oxon or any other then vacant out of a disaffection to the Habit of that Order And page 124. part 2. you say Alexander Nowell Dean of Saint Pauls Preaching before Queen Elisabeth spake irreverently of the sign of the Cross for which she from her closet window immediately checked him commanding him to retire from that ungodly digression And page 165. part 2. you tell us that Father Iohn Fox the Martyrologist being called on to subscribe appeared before the Bishop with the New Testament in Greek To this said he I will subscribe and if this will not serve take my Prebend of Salisbury the only preferment I hold in the Church of England and much good may it do you You tell us of Sampson Dean of Christ-Church who was deprived you say pag. 164. part 2. for refusing to wear the Habit belonging to his place You tell us also of one Hardiman page 115. part 2. a Prebend of Westminster deprived also for throwing down the Altar and defacing the vestments And in the same page you say both the Professors of divinity in the two Universites and Whitington Dean of Durham were Non-conformists These instances are your own and so you have no reason to except against them We have not wronged you as far as we know in a syllable and now Sir we leave it to you to judge Whether the point of conformity to such Ceremonies which have been a continual occasion of offence to the Reformed Churches both at home and abroad be still to be pressed with accustomed rigor A second branch of the third Querie was Whether such Ceremonies which link us in a conformity with that Church from which in many other things we have justly separated be to be continued and enjoyned We say that the Church of England having renounced Communion with the Church of Rome in all material points of Doctrine ought in point of

kept neat and comely and in good repair And what would you have more We know you miss the Common-Prayer-Book and some other Ornaments Truly Mr. Doctor we desire to deal plainly with you the greatest part of the people of this Nation are very ignorant Oh that you would leave your Cloyster and make some experiment by questioning and reasoning with them and we conceive plain and frequent preaching to be far more necessary for them and more required at all our hands then the reading of prayers or decking and adorning of Churches Would you commend that Nurse that should spend the greatest part of her time in decking and tricking up a child and in teaching it to speak and say after her and in the mean time suffer the child to pine away for want of milk While here is a great stir about Ceremonies Ornaments Liturgy the people perish for lack of knowledge Sermons decay apace it is come to once a day already and in some places to once a fortnight Sir diligent and frequent preaching is the great wheel should be kept going without which Prayers Sacraments Sabbaths will be but blind and blunt devotions and will quickly lose their savour and efficacy To bring you in love with Preaching we shall offer to you Bishop Iewels esteem of it who is of so great esteem with you And first we shall commend to you part of that Sermon preached at Saint Maries in Oxon which is to be found before the Book called the Defence it is upon these words 1 Pet. 4. 11. If any man speak c. In the third page are these words If the Sun were taken away from the world all things should be left dark disparkled and confounded so if the voice of the Pastor be taken out of the Church Religion is left at sixes and sevens it is left blind troubled all things are mingled with error superstition and idolatry of so great weight it is to be a Steward of the house of God The Gospel Religion Godliness the health of the Church dependeth of us alone This is our office this we take upon us and this we profess And except we do this we do nothing we serve to no use at all It is not enough to know I know not what learning the Devils perhaps know more then any of us all it belongeth to a Pastor not so much to have known many things as to have taught much Let it shame us that the basest kind of men even Coblers and Porters do that which belongeth unto them and we which ought to give light to all others are idle and do nothing For God would not have us to be idle bellies but he would have us to be interpreters of his mind Ministers of Jesus Christ the light of the world salt Angels and the sons of God Much more excellent matter to this purpose you may there read And he concludes his Sermon thus Whatsoever we are able by nature whatsoever by counsel whatsoever by wit or cunning let us bestow it all to serve the Church of God If we be the Brethren of Christ let us hear Christ let us feed his Lambs let us feed his sheep let us go let us preach let us teach And Mr. Doctor this great office of preaching is mightily hindred by non-residence and pluralities by reason of which the Church is pestered with a generation of silly Curates who can scarce read the Common-Prayer or an Homily as they should who neglect preaching which Bishop Iewel complains of as a sure in-let to Popery in his Sermon upon Ioshua 6. from these words Now Jericho was shut up c. page 14. But when saith he we see the great blindness and ignorance in all places abroad how could you Mr. Doctor so admire the face of the Church of England page 123. part 2. when you see her so blind for this Sermon was either preached before Queen Elisabeth or at Pauls Cross in her Reign what hope may we have to see Iericho he meaneth Rome suppressed or quite overthrown It cannot be but great inconveniences shall follow in the Church of God as confusion of Order and dissolution of life to the indangering of the State unless by godly care of the Magi strates some help be provided This care must shew it self in removing blind Watch-men who have no knowledge he doth not say that cannot read the Common-Prayer who are but dumb dogs that cannot bark who lie and sleep and delight in sleeping These greedy dogs can never have enough faith the Prophet Isaiah Non-residence and absence from their Cure is a fault that would be amended in the Shepherds of the Lords flock Though they be never so able to instruct and therefore worthy to have the Rooms in the Church yet if they have not a desire to do good if they feed not Christ's sheep if they be strangers to the people of their charge if they be not at hand to give their flocks their bread in due season what let may here be the Common Prayer could not prevent it but that ignorance and blindness shall grow and increase in the people Another fault saith he no less hurtful to the Church of God is the suffering of Pluralities when one man taketh the profit of two or more Benefices which is not worthy of one These Non-residents and Plurality-men teach not they know not nor care for the people of their charge they have brought this confusion do you see Doctor what a glorious Church we had in the time of Queen Elisabeth and shame into the House of God they are blind guides they are the darkness of the world Against those which are such God sheweth his heavy displeasure Ezek. 34. Ier. 2. Ier. 10. These either be a Remnant do you see Sir we are not yet fully reformed of the wicked inhabitants of Iericho i.e. Rome that resist the passage of Gods people we are yet in the Wilderness Doctor towards the Land of promise These be they that seek the restoring of Iericho do you know no such in the Convocation Sir and the over throw of Ierusalem therefore the curse of God will fall upon them the blood of Gods people shall be required at their hands because they bring the abomination of desolation into the holy place because they suffer Christs flock to perish for lack of knowledge God grant Amen all such that they may see with their eyes and understand with their hearts and know the gracious goodness of the Lord that the people be not through their negligence like Horse and Mule but that they may discern between darkness and light and between Iericho and Ierusalem Let us go on Mr. Doctor to his next Sermon to this about Iericho upon Haggai cap. 1. V. 2 3 4. Thus speaketh the Lord of Hosts saying This people say that the time is not yet come that the Lords house should be builded c. After much excellent matter which you may there read page the fifth he speaks thus What